Hertfordshire Prints

21x29 cm

To the Right Honourable George Earl Essex. &c. &c. This View of the ABBEY CHURCH at S.^T ALBANS, is inscribed By his LORDSHIP'S most obedient humble Servant, William Byrne.
Drawn by T. Hearne F.S.A. | Engraved by W. Byrne F.S.A.
London: Published as the Act directs, Nov.^r1.1804, by W. Byrne. N.^o 79 Titchfield Street.
Engraved on copper by William Byrne (1743-1805) from a drawing by Thomas Hearne (1744-1817) and published by Byrne in The Antiquities of Great Britain, Illustrated in Views of Monasteries, Castles and Churches now Existing. 1786.
Slight grubbiness and chipping to paper edges but with very generous margins, remains a fine uncommon engraving in hand colour.